Word: rasmussen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Loquacious, Kudlooktoo confessed not only to his tribe but (previously) to the missionary who converted him, Jens Olsen. Danish Jens Olsen naturally considered that after Kudlooktoo's public confession no secrecy attached to what he had confessed in private. Soon famed Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen knew all about it. He told Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society in New York. For a year and more the secret has been leaking out among explorers that Professor Ross G. Marvin of Cornell, one of Admiral Peary's most trusted Arctic lieutenants, was murdered by the Eskimo Kudlooktoo...
Putnam. Publisher George Palmer Putnam of Manhattan, with his small son David Binney Putnam; Art Young, archer; Carl Dunrud, cowboy; Dan Streeter, author; Capt. Bob Bartlett, Explorer Peary's onetime skipper; Knud Rasmussen, explorer; and naturalists from the American Museum of Natural History, have been cruising Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, off Greenland, in constant radio communication with the New York Times. Many a description of Arctic weather effects has been received, couched in Publisher Putnam's best editorial verbiage. Walrus, seals, narwhal and varied seafowl have fallen to the voyagers' trusty guns, a high moment coming...
...trip, and the higher temperature encountered on the Long Island field, gave the ship abnormal buoyancy and she rose unexpectedly from the ground. The enlisted men, when dragged a few feet from the ground, let go-as they are carefully trained to do. In his excitement, Private Aage Rasmussen, of the 62nd Aero Squadron, failed to let go; he was dragged aloft by the rope he was holding. He managed to swing this round his legs, and hung on. But not until it had reached a height of 400 feet could the crew of the TC2 cause the ship...
Second Tenors: A. T. Beauregard 1G., F. D. Collins '26, J. M. Gates '27, T. F. Kelley '27, Gerald Kresh '27, C. A. Lee '24, F. C. Palmer Jr. '25, L. B. Rasmussen '26, John Schee 1G.B., C. S. Smith '27, H. N. Wagar '26, Hyman Welsman...